Newyear’spoem #7

well now it’s new year’s againan occasional poem is writtenfor an occasion: robert frostwrote one for JFK maya angelouwrote one for bill clinton butwhen wordsworth was england’spoet laureate he refused to writeoccasional poems; they are notusually the poet’s best work.still, here is an occasion. my wishfor twenty eleven is that the largehadron collider now finished afterfifteen years manages to find a higgmaybe two, and the yellow leggedfrog now twenty-five adults away from extinction (180 frog species have already gone missing inrecent years; shouldn’t that alarm us?) anyway I wish the couple dozen or so pampered pollywogsjust released from careful labrearing into their native streamsthrive to breed more pollywogsme? oh I just wish to finish the book I began when I was fifteen